Nicola Ferro

Full Professor
in Computer Science

Intelligent Interactive Information Access (IIIA) Hub

Information Management Systems Research Group

Department of
Information Engineering

University of Padua, Italy

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Short CV

  • January 2021 Present

    Chair Adjunct Professor in Computer Science

    DA-IICT (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology), Gandhinagar, India

  • October 2019 Present

    Full Professor in Computer Science

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

  • October 2014 September 2019

    Associate Professor in Computer Science

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

  • March 2006 September 2014

    Assistant Professor in Computer Science

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

  • July 2005 February 2006

    Post-Doctoral Position in Computer Science

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

    Supervisor: prof. Maristella Agosti

  • April 2005

    PhD dissertation and conferring of the PhD in Computer Science

    The title of the PhD thesis is "Formal Model and Conceptual Architecture of the Annotation Service for Dynamic Ubiquitous Knowledge Environments"

    Supervisor: prof. Maristella Agosti

  • January 2005 July 2006

    Post-Doctoral Position in Computer Science

    Research grant of the Department of Information Engineering on "Literature survey and preliminary analysis for the design of an annotation general-purpose digital library component contributing to the development of a modular digital library infrastructure"

    Supervisor: prof. Maristella Agosti

  • January 2002 December 2004

    PhD Student in Computer Science

    Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy

    Supervisor: prof. Maristella Agosti

  • June 2001 December 2001

    Intern at IBM

    IBM Technology Deployment Division, Segrate, Milan, Italy

    The intern was about remote connectivity technologies to gain access to corporate intranet. Both wired broadband technologies, as xDSL and optical fiber, and wireless technologies, as GPRS, were studied and tested

    Supervisor: mr. Antonio Caizzi

  • June 2001

    Qualified to be admitted to the Italian Engineering Association

  • April 2001

    Laurea degree in Telecommunications Engineering at University of Padua

    The title of the thesis is "Online information access through handheld devices"

    Supervisor: prof. Maristella Agosti

Other Positions

  • 2022 Present

    Chair of the Steering Committee of the European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) Initiative

  • 2020 Present

    Chair of the ACM SIGIR Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC)

  • 2019 Present

    Member of the ACM Publications Board's Digital Library Committee

  • 2018 2019

    Chair of the ACM SIGIR Taskforce on Badging

  • 2013 2016

    Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (IEEE TCDL)

  • 2013 Present

    President of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) Association

  • 2011 Present

    Chair of the Steering Committee of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) Initiative

  • 2010 Present

    Advisory member of the Information Retrieval Society of India (IRSI)

 

Membership

  • 2021 Present

    Senior Member of ACM

  • 2017 Present

    Senior Member of IEEE

  • 2014 2017

    Member of Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) of the The Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) (former British Computer Society)

  • 2003 Present

    Member of ACM and IEEE